Monthly Archives: August 2005

The news last week that Derek Laud emerged from the Big Brother house to be swept away by his new PR minder Christine Hamilton was only slightly surprising, not utterly so. After all, they’re both professional Tories and endangered species like that need to stick together to avoid total extinction. All the same, the old […]

The nation’s biggest cultural events, like its sporting ones, have evolved over a generation into major business opportunities, but the Edinburgh festival remains a marketing desert http://media.guardian.co.uk/advertising/story/0,7492,1547995,00.html

Ah, August, the cruellest month by far for newspapers, but usually quite a good one for publicists. Circulations plummet as readers and journalists alike flit from villa to beach, and those left behind tune to Channel 4 for the cricket while they pray for something momentous to happen on the quiet watch. This year, however, […]